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==History==
[[File:Canaletto - Badminton House, Gloucestershire.jpg|thumb|Badminton House in the 19th century]]
In 1612 [[Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester]], bought from Nicholas Boteler his manors of Great and Little Badminton, called 'Madmintune'{{sic}} in the [[Domesday Book]] while one century earlier the name 'Badimyncgtun' was recorded,{{sfn|Harris|loc=Badminton Guide Book}}<ref>{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of British Place-Names |first=A. D. |last=Mills |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-19-852758-6}}</ref> held by that family since 1275. Edward Somerset's third son Sir Thomas Somerset modernized the old house in the late 1620s, and
The [[Duke of Beaufort|Dukes of Beaufort]] acquired the property in the late 17th century, when the family moved from [[Raglan Castle]], Monmouthshire, which had been ruined in the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]. The third duke adapted Sir Thomas Somerset's house by incorporating his several gabled ranges around the courtyard and extending the old house eastwards to provide a new set of domestic apartments. He
For the fourth duke, who succeeded his brother in 1745, the architect [[William Kent]] renovated and extended the house in the [[Palladian]] style, but many earlier elements remain.<ref>[http://www.southglos.gov.uk/NR/exeres/92c02a8b-0fca-4877-a895-2bc14c5821d4 Great Badminton Conservation Area - South Gloucestershire Council<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927025933/http://www.southglos.gov.uk/NR/exeres/92c02a8b-0fca-4877-a895-2bc14c5821d4 |date=2007-09-27 }}</ref> The duke was instrumental in bringing the Italian artist [[Canaletto]] to England: Canaletto's two views of Badminton remain in the house.<ref>Hugh Montgomery-Mass, Christopher Simon Sykes, ''Great Houses of England & Wales'' 1994:219ff.</ref>
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